The British Musical Biography

[E] Roeckel, Joseph Leopold, pianist and
composer, born in London, April 11, 1838.
Youngest son of Professor Joseph Augustus
Roeckel,, vocalist and operatic director
(1783-1870), who, in 1832, produced for the
first time in England, German opera in the
original language, Beethoven's " Fidelic,"
May 18, etc. J. L. Roeckel studied under
his father ; at Wiir.zburg, with Eisenhofer ;
and with Johann Gotze, at Weimar. Settled
at Clifton, as teacher and coinposer. Has
been often heard as a pianist ; played at the
first of Mr. Riseley's Popular Concerts, Oct-
ober 6, 1877 ; in Birmingham the same year,
on tour with Pyatt's concert party, etc. He
has composed a great number of vocal and
instrumental pieces, outlined in the subjoined
list : — Cantatas : Fair Rosamund, produced
at the Crystal Palace, 1871 : Westward Ho ! ;
The Ten Virgins ; Ruth ; Father Christmas ;
The Sea Maidens; Heather Bells; Mary
Stuart ; La Gitana ; The Minstrel Prince ;
Jubilee Cantata, The Victorian Age, 1887 ;
Miriam ; Yule-tide chimes ; A summer Sun-
day morning ; The crystal slipper ; The wood-
land sylphs ; The angel's gift ; Merrie old
England ; Mountain rose ; William Tell (for
boys). The Christian's Armour, service of
song. The hours ; The silver penny, operettas
for children. Glees : Twilight ; Airs of sum-
mer ; Madeline ; In Memoriam (Mlle. Tiet-
jens), etc. Dramatic scena, " Siddartha,"
for baritone solo and orchestra, Bristol Festi-
val, 189G. Songs of Nature, 12 two-part-
songs; Two sets of five songs, op. 12, 13;
Lieder-album, six songs ; The scent of the
limes ; Can you forget ; Angus Macdonald ;
Won by a rose ; Storm fiend ; Sun dial ; and
many other songs. Suite for orchestra ;
pieces for violin and pf . ; Abend-Traum ; Air
du Dauphin ; Fete Roumaine ; Impromptu
caprices, 2 books ; Three Musical Sketches,
etc., for pf.

[+] In 1864 he married Miss Jane Jackson,
pianist and composer, born at Clifton. Her
father — the late S. Jackson, of the old Water
Colour Society, and an excellent amateur
musician — was her first teacher ; and she
studied later under Pauer, Halle, Madame
Schumann, Blumenthal, and Molique. Ap-
peared at solo pianist at concerts given by
Ernst Pauer in London ; and from 1862 gave
concerts at Clifton, playing concertos by
Hummel, etc., with orchestral accompani-
ments. Later, devoted herself chiefly to
teaching and coniposition, but playing occas-
ionally in public. On April 4, 1885, she gave
a concert of compositions by women. Under
the name of Jules de Siveai, she has pub-
lished Balmoral, Reverie Mazurka, Premiere
Tarantella, Danse Russe, and other pieces for
pf., several of which have been played by
Arabella Goddard. She has also composed
A Village Story, Drifting on, and numerous
other songs ; and is the inventor of the " Pam-
phonia," an appliance for learning the stave
and clefs. She founded, in 1889, the Teachers'
Provident Association, an excellent local
institution.

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